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Title

  • Consciousness and action control

Summary

  • The basic nuts and bolts underlying human behavior remain mysterious from a scientific point of view. Everyday acts -- naming an object, suppressing the urge to say something, or grabbing a waiter's attention with a "cappuccino, please" -- remain difficult to understand from a mechanistic standpoint. Despite these challenges, research has begun to illuminate, not only the basic processes underlying human action production, but the role of conscious processing in the control of behavior. This Research Topic, "Consciousness and the Control of Action," is devoted to surveying and synthesizing these developments from disparate fields of study.

Names

  • Morsella, Ezequiel, editor.
  • Poehlman, T. Andrew, editor.

Created / Published

  • Lausanne, Switzerland : Frontiers Media SA 2014.

Contents

  • The Inevitable Contrast: Conscious Vs. Unconscious Processes in Action Control / Ezequiel Morsella and T. Andrew Poehlman -- The Efference Cascade, Consciousness, and its Self: Naturalizing the First Person Pivot of Action Control / Bjorn Merker -- The Role of Locomotion in Psychological Development / David I. Anderson, Joseph J. Campos, David C. Witherington, Audun Dahl, Monica Rivera, Minxuan He, Ichiro Uchiyama and Marianne Barbu-Roth -- Choosing Actions / David A. Rosenbaum, Kate M. Chapman, Chase J. Coelho, Lanyun Gong and Breanna E. Studenka -- Action-Sentence Compatibility: The Role of Action Effects and Timing / Christiane Diefenbach, Martina Rieger, Cristina Massen and Wolfgang Prinz -- Persistence of Internal Representations of Alternative Voluntary Actions / Elisa Filevich and Patrick Haggard -- Reconciling the Influence of Task-Set Switching and Motor Inhibition Processes on Stop Signal After-Effects / Joaquin A. Anguera, Kyle Lyman, Theodore P. Zanto, Jacob Bollinger and Adam Gazzaley -- The Role of Consciousness in the Phonological Loop: Hidden in Plain Sight / Bradley R. Buchsbaum -- The Influence of High-Level Beliefs on Self-Regulatory Engagement: Evidence From Thermal Pain Stimulation / Margaret T. Lynn, Pieter Van Dessel and Marcel Brass -- Desynchronization and Rebound of Beta Oscillations During Conscious and Unconscious Local Neuronal Processing in the Macaque Lateral Prefrontal Cortex / Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos, Vishal Kapoor and Nikos K. Logothetis -- Dancing in the Dark: No Role for Consciousness in Action Control / Bernhard Hommel -- How and to What End May Consciousness Contribute to Action? Attributing Properties of Consciousness to an Embodied, Minimally Cognitive Artificial Neural Network / Holk Cruse and Malte Schilling -- The Calcium Wave Model of the Perception-Action Cycle: Evidence From Semantic Relevance in Memory Experiments / Alfredo Pereira Jr, Rafael Peres dos Santos and Rafael Fernandes Barros -- The Effects of Alerting Signals in Masked Priming / Rico Fischer, Franziska Plessow and Andrea Kiesel -- Adaptive Control of Human Action: The Role of Outcome Representations and Reward Signals / Hans Marien, Henk Aarts and Ruud Custers -- The Wild Ways of Conscious Will: What We do, How We do it, and Why it Has Meaning / J. Scott Jordan -- Action simulation: Time Course and Representational Mechanisms / Anne Springer, Jim Parkinson and Wolfgang Prinz -- Conscious Thought Does not Guide Moment-to-Moment Actionsit Serves Social and Cultural Functions / E. J. Masicampo and Roy F. Baumeister.

Headings

  • -  Choice (Psychology)
  • -  Consciousness--Psychological aspects
  • -  Human behavior
  • -  Subconsciousness

Notes

  • -  "Frontiers in Psychology."
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Frontiers In, viewed July 1, 2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (198 pages) : color illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BF311

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020394824

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Morsella, Ezequiel, and T. Andrew Poehlman, editor. Consciousness and Action Control. Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA, 2014. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020394824/.

APA citation style:

Morsella, E. & Poehlman, T. A., editor. (2014) Consciousness and Action Control. Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020394824/.

MLA citation style:

Morsella, Ezequiel, and T. Andrew Poehlman, editor. Consciousness and Action Control. Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA, 2014. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020394824/>.